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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A five-hour cease-fire between Israel and Hamas has ended. And the Israeli military says a rocket fired from Gaza landed in Israel just as the cease-fire came to an end. The halt in fighting was to allow Gaza residents to stock up on supplies and other necessities. Residents crowded banks, vegetable markets and shops, taking advantage of the break from 10 days of air strikes. The truce was briefly thrown into doubt when Gaza militants fired three mortar shells toward Israel, but it appeared to be an isolated incident.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The decline in the number of applications for unemployment benefits continues. The Labor Department says claims fell by 3,000 last week, suggesting a strengthening jobs market. Hiring is at its healthiest clip since the late 1990s, and the 6.1 percent unemployment rate is at a five and a-half-year low.
WASHINGTON (AP) — GM officials will be on Capitol Hill today to testify about the company's delayed recall of millions of small cars. The Senate Commerce subcommittee on consumer protection wants to know what role the company's legal department played in the mishandled recall of defective ignition switches. It also will ask how GM is changing the corporate culture that allowed such a mishandling to occur. Expected to testify are CEO Mary Barra and GM General Counsel Michael Millikin.
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — Mourners in New Jersey will begin saying their goodbyes today to a rookie Jersey City police officer gunned down following a drug store armed robbery. The wake for Officer Melvin Santiago is scheduled for this afternoon, and the funeral is tomorrow morning. Police say the 23-year-old officer was killed by a man who had grabbed a security guard's gun following Sunday's armed robbery and waited for police to arrive. The suspected gunman was then killed. Tensions were raised when a sidewalk memorial was erected in the suspect's neighborhood to honor him.
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — Cayci and Summer Underwood are sunburned, scraped and exhausted, but they're OK. The half-sisters from Tennessee were paddleboarding from Tybee Island, Georgia to a South Carolina island Tuesday when they were caught by a storm. The 27- and 21-year-old spent hours on the water. They abandoned their paddleboard when they were in sight of Hilton Head island. The Island Packet of Hilton Head reports that it took the two another 45 minutes to swim to shore, nearly 8 miles from where they started.
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